ABSTRACT
The present English version, authorized by the publishers and heirs of M. Merimee, is based on the third French Edition. New material of two sorts has been added, however. First, the translator has been allowed to utlize an annotated, interleaved copy of the Precis, 1922, in which the author, and after his death his son Henri, himself a distinguished Hispanist, had set down material for the next revision. This accounts for many inserted names and phrases, and some paragraphs. Second, the translator has rewritten and added with some freedom.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|75 pages
First Period The Middle Ages From the Beginnings of Literature to Juan II
part 2|10 pages
Second Period The Renaissance From Juan II to Carlos V (1406–1516)
part 3|13 pages
Third Period The Golden Age (El Siglo De Oro)
part 4|11 pages
Fourth Period Neo-Classicism From the Middle of the 18th Century to the Second Third of the 19th
part 5|11 pages
Fifth Period Romanticism Second Third of the Nineteenth Century
part 6|10 pages
Sixth Period Contemporary Literature From the Middle of the 19th Century to the Present Time
